High as the Heavens

Oh, this was like a warm blanket and a fire on a chilly, rainy day...or like eating gourmet mac and cheese when you've had a bad day. This type of story hits all my cozy spots and makes me want to climb into the story and hug all the characters, maybe even jump up and down with them for their joy and cry with them in their pain.

I knew from a few of the advance reviews that it was going to be exactly my sort of story. The plot is one of my personal favorites, partly because it isn't done often and done well even less often. A widow, still thinking longingly of the husband she'd had too little of to begin with, having him drop into her life, alive? Add spies and danger to it, and Evelyn can't even begin to tell him everything that happened to her after she heard word he died in a plane crash and went to her mother's side in Belgium. (You think the Nazis are bad...well, these were their daddies, and we'll just say blood shows, sometimes.)

Then of course there's the deadly double agent, the mysterious leak in the Resistance, where Eve is doing all she can to get the Huns defeated and out of Belgium before she loses her mother and remaining aunt and uncle. (I especially loved her frail mother's brave help of the cause by pricking codes into her lace patterns...genius!)

The pages almost turned themselves...if you like WW1, spies, and romance, you must read this book!

Content: Eve is Catholic, so there's confession and an image of the Madonna and child in her room. She is fond of saying “Dear Lord” when in distress, but it seems to be said as a prayer because of the context. There is some married flirting between her and her husband, and a description of attempted rape, but nothing too graphic.